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UN Human Rights Chief Cites Continued Abuses in Venezuela

Associated Press

   CARACAS, VENEZUELA - The United Nations' chief human rights official
   said Monday that millions of Venezuelans continue to suffer rights
   violations, including dozens of possible extrajudicial killings carried
   out by a special police force.
   Nongovernmental organizations report that the Special Action police
   force carried out 57 suspected extrajudicial killings in July alone
   within Caracas, Michelle Bachelet said in an oral presentation on
   Venezuela to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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